Workplace Health & Wellness

When you get staff engagement right it doesn't only change the workplace, it changes lives. Check out Robert's story and see the impact his organisation's Health and Wellbeing program had on him.

You can see more stories like Robert's on our Testimonials page.

The Foundation for Chronic Disease Prevention has just released some compelling research on the comparative health effects, both physical and mental, of taking less than 5,000 steps a day and taking more than 10,000 steps a day.

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Well, as a recently published finding by researchers at the University of Queensland and the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute shows – it’s a lot more impactful than you may have thought.

Using existing data and the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study the researchers found that the amount of TV viewed in Australia reduced life expectancy by 1.8 years for men and 1.5 years for women.

Australia is ranked 7th in daily average TV watching hours behind the UK, US, Italy, Germany, France and Ireland with research from Nielsen showing that Americans watch around 5 hours of TV per day.

The study found that those who spend a lifetime average of 6 hr/day watching TV can expect to live 4.8 years less!

This means that on average, every single hour of TV viewed after the age of 25 reduces the viewer's life expectancy by 21.8 min.

Sitting and watching TV therefore carries the same increased risk of dying as physical inactivity and obesity! Your workforce spends one third of their day at the office, often in a chair and unfortunately when they are getting home they are spending their nights in an equally inactive state.

These findings more than ever reinforce the need for organisations to implement wellness programs that break the sedentary lifestyles of their employees.

It’s imperative that a wellness program addresses physical inactivity beyond the boundaries of the workplace to create genuine behavioural change that is meaningful, effective and sustainable.

To all our wonderful clients, participants, partners and friends - the GCC Crew wish you, your families and your team Happy Holidays and a fun filled New Year.

Thank you for your support throughout 2011, we hope you have a great festive break and we look forward to supporting you to create an even healthier, happier and more productive workplace in 2012.

A message to the GCC participants from the 120,000 kids that were given a free place in this year's Global Children's Challenge™.

Thousands of students from all over the world got out the coloured pencils to say thank you to GCC participants for making their involvement in the Global Children's Challenge possible - Here are their amazing drawings and stories.